|
|
Cameroon: Fire Devastates Camtel GM's House
 |
 |
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
The Post (Buea)
28 April 2008
Posted to the web 28 April 2008
Christopher Jator Njechu
An electric fire last Friday demolished the upper flat of the duplex of the General Manager, GM, of the Cameroon Telecommunications, CAMTEL, David Nkotto Emane, at Nkomo, a few kilometres from Yaounde.
The fire broke out about 6.30 am from one of the room sleeping rooms. Fortunately, the GM's children had already left the four-room flat and were breakfasting for school downstairs.
Though it is unclear what really caused the incident, an electric iron forgotten on the socket after ironing, apparently by the kids as they hurried for school, might have caused a spark.
Neighbours told The Post that the GM and his wife who were still in bed in upstairs managed to find their way out through an external detour.
Efforts to reach the fire brigade in Yoaunde were futile. Gendarmes who were on guard beside the fire brigade at the Mimboman neighbourhood contacted to alert fire extinguishers; who reached the scene an hour later.
|
Albeit all valuable contents of the upstairs flat had been razed, the fire was checked from extending downstairs and beyond.The GM, The post learnt been has relocated at a government-given apartment in the Bastos neighbourhood in Yaounde.
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Copyright © 2008 The Post. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections -- or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Make allAfrica.com your home page | RSS Feed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top | Site Guide | Who We Are | Advertising | Search | Subscribe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Questions or Comments? Contact us. Read our Privacy Statement. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
